Comments on: AM New York Gets the Scoop on Who the New Mayor is in Amazing Spider-Man #591!

By: Weekly Recommendations for 4/22/09 « Goki’s Giving Groin

Weekly Recommendations for 4/22/09 « Goki’s Giving Groin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:24:21 +0000

[...] Amazing Spider-Man #592- We don’t often recommend Spider-Man comics (you can thank “One More Day” for that), but I heard about the big surprise at the end of last week’s issue. Let’s just say it really, really got my attention. Want to know what it is? Click here. [...]

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:36:25 +0000

It was Reagan who turned into a lizard, in the ’80s. In Captain America #344 in 1988, to be exact.

And I think it’s closer to the truth than many are willing to admit.

By: Mike Haseloff

Mike Haseloff — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:06:38 +0000

It never even occurred to me that this might contribute to putting to bed the popular “fact” that Marvel is more grounded in “reality” than DC. It’s all hoohah!

By: Quentin Beck

Quentin Beck — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:54:19 +0000

I miss SPider-man. They turned the book into nothing but empty gimmicks and made the character the most insignificant person you can imagine. To us older readers it’s like he’s dead. It’s just sad, the can’t buy anything that happens anymore. ‘Hey, everyone finds out who Spider-man is. What a great story that would of made. No wait, we don’t care we have to get rid of the marriage.’ THey (Q know who) didn’t care and now they want to care, but why should. we.

Next issue: Spider-man plays poker with that captain that was kidnapped by pirates! Bah!

By: snappy

snappy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:08:30 +0000

Daredevil should have been mayor ages ago, it would have spared us a lot of trouble.

By: Jeremy Henderson

Jeremy Henderson — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:11:31 +0000

While it may seem that JJJ becoming mayor of New York is a much smaller event than Luthor becoming president, you have to remember that this is the Marvel Universe, where for all intents and purposes New York City is America. I’m pretty sure that in the MU the rest of New York and the other 49 states are just considered boroughs.

By: Greg Manuel

Greg Manuel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:15:40 +0000

So THIS is the story that married_Spider-Man was holding back…!

By: Sijo

Sijo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:50:11 +0000

I actually *prefer* the comics to use fictional politicians rather than real ones; that way they can demonize them (or idealize them) all they want. As for JJJ as Mayor? Well, I’m not following Spider-Man recently, so for all I know, there Is a justification for this in the “new” continuity… but he of course strikes me as a poor person for the job, after all his anti-Spidey mania DID lead to the creation of several villains. Most importantly, with Osborn in charge of HAMMER (and it seems, the US government) it loses some of its impact, as mentioned above. They should’ve done it before (or after) Dark Reign. In the end: not interesting enough to draw me in by itself. Get Peter and MJ back together (in some fashion) and we’ll see then.

By: R3D RJ

R3D RJ — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:24:19 +0000

Huh?

I thought JJJ was running the FrontLine or something?

By: I AM FeAR

I AM FeAR — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:53:50 +0000

“And I don’t see Jameson donning a powersuit or anything to fight him; he’s never been that level of villain.”

No, Jameson just hires people to build Spidey-Killing Robots with his face displayed on a screen on its body.
But other than his Spidey Vendetta, Jameson isnt an evil man.
And this might be interesting with the Osborn situation, since they are basically enemies .
Norman once bought the Daily Bugle to control it for one thing.

As for the story itself…………

I dont mind that Jameson becomes mayor, but they built the whole election storyline for a year with the dud ending in Character Assasination where the elected guy declines the job, just to swerve readers with the surprise Jameson win?
Pretty lame if you ask me.
Not that I care, I only buy Amazing when John Romita Jr draws it.

By: Pennyforth

Pennyforth — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:39:41 +0000

*PAF!*

That was the sound of my brain exploding. Take that as good or bad as you will.

Chuck

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:12:37 +0000

I’ve got no problem with the JJJ-mayor thing.
I am a little nonplussed by the whole “new Vulture” idea though.
I really hope it’s not the same old lameass “replace him with someone young & vicious who’s a REAL threat because people think he’s not a ‘serious’ enough villain” exercise yet again. That would be a total yawner.
It would only be a fun and interesting story if the role were taken over by someone who’s every bit as too old to be doing this as the previous Vulture. The whole point of the Vulture to me is that he’s an old man, obviously way too old to be fighting Spider-Man. Any attempt to get away from this for some deluded concern for “realism” is a mistake.
In a movie, he shouldn’t be played by Patrick Stewart (as I’ve seen suggested online) but by Abe Vigoda (I’m totally serious).

By: Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy!

Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy! — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:56:57 +0000

Don’t blame me, I voted for Matt Murdock.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:55:13 +0000

I love reading crazy complaints about Spider-Man. Glad I came back to this thread.
On a related note, I was somewhat disappointed with the issue itself. Interesting idea for the immediate future, but the resolution of the FF story was lacking.

By: buttler

buttler — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:32:47 +0000

Of course, the absurdity of that insistence totally ignores Cap running for president and Richard Nixon turning into an evil lizard in the 70s.

It was Reagan who turned into a lizard, in the ’80s. In Captain America #344 in 1988, to be exact.

By: Alexr

Alexr — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:12:39 +0000

I swear Amazing Spider-man is the worst comic I’ve ever read. The main character has no redeeming values anymore and it’s just gimmick after gimmick: He dies, new costume, identity revealed to the world (which was pointless and completely wasted), Barrack Obama’s in a issue, he makes a pact with satan thus making not a hero but a pathetic loser. Who cares about a guy wh o doesn’t think anything out and has no morals at all. Even super villians have something related to morals, not Spidey. WHy did they hire all these fine writers to come up with this garbage? It’s pointless.

Mark Waid! Mark Waid, all the other writers. Quit. You guys are too good for this lousy book.

By: EarthX

EarthX — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:57:52 +0000

I do have to say this was obvious from the get go.

A major character (one that brand new day was meant to bring back to the fore) just sitting around. A mayoral contest plotline left open. It was pretty clear what they were setting up for.

And the “villian in charge” is already going on with Osborn, so Mr.Negative as mayor was a clear red herring.

By: Snikt Snakt

Snikt Snakt — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:54:56 +0000

anything is better then the wussy mayor NYC has in reality…

By: Matt Ampersand

Matt Ampersand — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:49:51 +0000

Um, how is this any worse than the Green Goblin being in charge of national security and the government-sanctioned Avengers team? Like someone mentioned already, Spider-Man is already a fugitive, this is not going to make it any worse for him than it already was.

By: T.

T. — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:30:57 +0000

Mark Waid said in the interview, “The term limit is when the readers get fed up with this, we move on.”

So Mark Waid DID come up with this? I knew it, it sounded like a Waid idea.

Actually did Waid write the panel up there too? That “Nuff Said” joke is corny and goofy-in-a-bad-way enough to be his. Can’t really see Guggenheim or Slott doing that joke.